除了以上祥瑞之意，龟也有贬义，比如，表示一个人懦弱无能，遇到危险就退缩。
Excepting its commendatory senses, tortoise has a derogatory sense. As one man running into difficulties, he resemble shrinking however head tortoise.
她不愿意向埃尔辛太太承认自己看错了这个人，但她还是老实地表示一个人只要是爱他的孩子便不会没有优点的。
She hated to admit to Mrs. Elsing that she had misjudged the man but she was an honest person and she said there had to be something good about a man who loved his child.
这个词用来形容人的时候，则表示一个人具有从惊吓、沮丧以及其它任何超越人类情感极限的状态中从容地恢复过来的能力。
When used in reference to a person this word means the ability to readily recover from shock, depression or any other situation that stretches4 the limits of a person's emotions.
警方没有公布他的名字，但表示一个人相信是枪手被发现后， 博彩， 博彩，显然对自己把他的枪内的ABB公司在圣路易斯工厂死亡。
Police did not release his name, but said a man believed to be the gunman was found dead inside the ABB plant in St. Louis after apparently turning his gun on himself.
殊不知在埃塞俄比亚和许多其它国家，这是轻蔑之意，因为体胖被认为更好，它象征着健康和地位，也表示一个人有足够的财富来获得这两样东西。
Yet in Ethiopia and a number of other countries, this is taken pejoratively, as it is thought better to be heavy-set, indicating health and status and enough wealth to ensure the two.
虽然一个人的汗水毛孔往往会在指纹中留下空洞，但韦特海姆表示这些空洞被拉长，显得异常的大。
Although a person's sweat pores often leave voids in a fingerprint, Wertheim says that these voids were unusually big and elongated.
其它的每一位公民，苏格拉底表示，都必需被放到，本来就适合天生适合的位置，一个人，一件工作，他如此表示。
Each of the other citizens, Socrates says, must be brought to that which naturally suits him, which naturally suits him, one man, one job, he says.
我想对你们每一个人表示感谢，感谢你们送来充满体贴、激励，而且漂亮的信件、卡片和礼物。
I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, CARDS and gifts.
不知怎么的，我在注册办公室里向着每一个人微笑，每一个人也向我表示欢迎和支持。
Somehow, I was all smiles when I met the people in the admissions office, and they were all so welcoming and supportive of me.
他表示，该研究的目的是为了了解人们的心境如何受到周围人的影响。这里的心境是指一个人大体上的情绪状态，是开心愉悦还是闷闷不乐。
He said this study was designed to understand how changes in long-term emotional states - meaning, whether you consider yourself a happy or sad person overall - are affected by the people you know.
他们表示，因为一开始生一个孩子对他们来说太过正常，因为他们也是一个人长大。
For a start, they say, having one child is normal to them, since they were brought up alone.
在这个协作的世界中，一个人可能处理来自多个其他团体的文档，而不同的团体可能希望以不同的方式表示他们的数据元素。
In the collaborative world, one person may be processing documents from many other parties and the different parties may want to represent their data elements differently.
女孩走开后，思玉对咖啡店不友好的态度表示歉意，她说，“我是这家店里唯一的常客，可是到现在三年了，店里没有一个人认识我。”
Siyu apologized for the shop’s unfriendliness after the girl had returned to the counter. “I’m about their only regular customer, but for three years no one has acknowledged me, ” she said.
这里有一位成员来自挪威，另外一个人显示了惊讶，然后表示她来自新西兰。
One member comes from Norway; another shows surprise, then offers that she is from New Zealand.
环保人士表示，动物园没有一头武广牛，也没有一个人知道如何将它们圈养。如果这一物种在野外消失，便意味着它们从此灭绝。
Conservationists said that with none in zoos and almost nothing known about how to keep them in captivity, if the species vanish in the wild they will be extinct.
塞弗特和她的团队表示达尔文猴化石太不完整，因此没有太多的结构细节值得研究。但他们没有一个人亲眼看到过这个原始的标本。
Seiffert and his team claim Darwinius didn't have much anatomical detail to study because it is so crushed, but none of the authors have ever seen the original specimen.
几乎没有男人告诉我，他们是一个人到这里来的，而且大多数人对这样的想法表示厌恶。
Few men told me that they were traveling alone, and most expressed discomfort at the idea.
廷德尔教授表示这个研究不能确定是乐观的心情使得人们做出更健康的选择，还是乐观本身确实会影响一个人的身体健康状况。
Professor Tindle says the study did not confirm whether optimism leads to healthier choices, or if it actually affects a person's physical health.
其中一个人表示，好消息是土耳其精英看起来仍对入盟有信心。
The good news, maintains one, is that the Turkish elite still appears to believe in the membership talks.
他还表示，在这个世界文化传统最丰富的国家之一，很难把遗产的流失归咎于某一个人。
He also said it was difficult to find someone to blame for the loss of heritage in one of the world's richest cultural environments.
但是警方同时表示，一个人同时发动两次袭击也不是不可能的。
But the police official said it wouldn't be impossible for one man to carry out the attacks on his own.
他的邻居表示让这样一个人住在小区很不安全。
His neighbors said that they did not feel safe with such a person in the community.
人们预料通用会破产已经很久了，所以当它最终倒下时，几乎没有一个人对此表示惊讶。
The demise of GM had been expected for so long that when it finally died there was barely a whimper. Wall Street was unmoved.
最初，维格尼拉村民对此项目表示怀疑，但现在大家都很支援。米达利说：“开始时，人们并不相信，可现在每一个人都很热心”。
After initial scepticism, Viganella's residents are rallying behind the idea. "At the beginning people had doubts. But now everybody is enthusiastic," said Midali.
最初，维格尼拉村民对此项目表示怀疑，但现在大家都很支援。米达利说：“开始时，人们并不相信，可现在每一个人都很热心”。
After initial scepticism, Viganella's residents are rallying behind the idea. "At the beginning people had doubts. But now everybody is enthusiastic," said Midali.
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